Marmariç - Asmin Film Production

About Film

Marmariç team lived together in Kuzguncuk, Istanbul for 15 years, and then, they decided to live in the country. They found an abandoned village in İzmir. Some members of the group settled there and some others continued from the city. This is an initiative nearly every environmentalist believes that works and succeeds.

Marmariç team’s own description is ‘The aim that put us together was to establish a communal life in the country … We do not rely on the words while describing ourselves as we do not claim that there is only one and the best truth. All of these do not mean that there isn’t only one way that united us. We have our preferences. We learn while living and doing.’

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Movie Quotes

Murat: “We left Istanbul in 2006 and came here. Since then, we have had lots of ups and downs in our lives here. Yet, this collective life and our union here is quite valuable for me.”

Erkan: “We are in an agreement without any contracts as we have responsibility we have to others is the responsibility that we have to ourselves. Also, we don’t bring anyone to account because we accept everything anyone can do. We say to each other ‘You can make mistakes, so are you still with me? I’m with you because no matter how many mistakes I do, I have to continue to be with myself. Our root is the time we have spent together, our body is our presence and the things we have done in this place, and our arms are everyone we can reach.

Purpose, Approach

With their structuring, crowd and chaos making our lives a torture most of the time, are big cities our only alternatives? Can there be a conscious and preferred country life in our country too? Is it possible to live without being apart from the nature or being carried away by the consumption frenzy? Can there be an urban farmer? Are all these running away from the city, these pursuits a kind of trend? We think aloud with the people whose lives we witness. We are reconsidering the cities we live in. We ask if it is possible to build a new living space with our own color and shape apart from the models that are presented to us.

In a world where everything is constructed upon the urban life are these life trials utopic?

In our narration which we used the witness method basically, we will have questions that we seek answers. Is it possible for people who have spent so much time in big cities to get rid of this urbanism that stick on them?

The work done is very important but how and what is the source of the responses of practical life?

How do people who have little or no contact with the nature have a start in the country? Is this a reunion or just a struggle with the nature? Is the word ‘it’s not the nature that needs us but we need the nature’ valid in every situation?

Is it possible for the ones who fought or struggled with the nature all the time and had a public memory to have another relationship in an instant?

Our film focuses on the ones who leave the city in order to ‘have a collective life in the country’. Although we take a stand with the ‘another life is possible’ idea, our attitude to these stories do not show it. In these life style trials, we not only witness the things created but also show the things that do not work or contradict.

Crew

Yapım – Production

TRT Belgesel Kanalı – TRT Tourism and Documentary Channel

Yönetmen, Metin Yazarı – Written and Directed by Bingöl Elmas

Görüntü Yönetmeni – Director of Photography Koray Kesik

Kameraman – Cameraman Mehmet Eren Bozbaş

Kurgu – Editing Uğur Hamidoğulları, Ali İlhan

Ses – Sound Özkan Arınkal

Müzik – Music Taner Sarf Yapım

Yönetim Asistanı – Assistants to the Director Sultan İlhan, Özgür Küçüktülü

Görsel Tasarım ve Jenerik -Color Correction and Generic Desing Ali İlhan

Ses ve Görüntü Deşifresi Aliye Düşünmez, Sultan İlhan

Çeviriler – Translation

İngilizce- English: Şirin Bahar Demirel

Rusça – Rusia : Emine Beldağ

Almanca- German: Veronika Hartman

Altyazı Uygulama – Subtitle Application Onur Çakır

Muhasebe – Accounting Metin Açar

Appearances

Erkan Buğday, Saydam-Pelin Beyazıt, Selen-Murat Akhuy, Tibet Akhuy, Leyla-Ezel Beyazıt, Dijan Albayrak, Hira Doğrul, Hazal Sıla Akduran, Kayhan Uğur, Mustafa Fatih Bakır, Ümit Kılıçgedik, Çağrı Gürbüz, Pınar-Mete Hacaloğlu, Yasin-Rana Sancak

Supporters

Contributors

Acknowledgements

The Association of Documentary Filmmakers in Turkey (BSB)

Technical Support

Çan Film Production

KutupAyısı Documentary Productions

Akademi Production

Special Thanks to

Kaya Hacaloğlu, Birsenİncedayı, Ayşe İncedayı

BanuUzpeder, İncilayErdoğan

MelekToraman, Mehmet Aksoy,